The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting to review childhood vaccine recommendations in the US. The ...

International researchers who studied the merging of two black holes say their new observations match theories developed by ...

Young contact sports players' brains can show signs of damage years before symptoms of long-term brain disease appear, a ...

An emergency set net fishing ban to protect yellow-eyed penguins around the Otago Peninsula begins at 5 pm today. The ...

Five well-publicised geoengineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change in the polar regions are "extremely ...

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The government has announced the largest reforms to NZ’s science sector in over three decades. The seven Crown Research Institutes will be replaced by three Public Research Organisations (PROs) ...

Amid this year’s science sector reforms, the 2025 Budget includes money for the establishment of three new Public Research Organisations and a gene tech regulator.

We now have details of a new Bill which introduces long-awaited reforms to genetic modification rules, reducing restrictions for scientists to work with the technology. The applications for genetic ...

What implications would the shift to a new biotechnology regulator have for the legal and policy landscape around genetic technologies in NZ? “Currently, genetic technologies are regulated through ...